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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「顧曲周郎」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Originally refers to Zhou Yu’s career in music. Later, it generally refers to people who are proficient in music and opera.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gù qǔ zhōu láng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gu3 kuk1 jau1 long4

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